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Literary Division: On his farm near Havana, Ernest Hemingway told a reporter who asked him about the war that he was going to get into it himself, left unsaid how, when & where. Said the 44-year-old World War I veteran: "I am and always have been a soldier. For that reason, I prefer action to talking about the war. . . . I'll talk about that when I get back from it, if I come out alive from this struggle for the liberty and dignity of man." For a statement attacking the British, hulking U.S. Novelist Theodore Dreiser was forbidden by Justice Minister Louis St. Laurent to make speeches (or public statements anywhere) in Canada. Dreiser had said: If Russia were defeated, he hoped the Germans would invade England—he would rather see them there than the "aristocratic, horse-riding snobs" who run the country; Churchill has no intention of opening a second front, "does nothing except send thousands of Canadians to be slaughtered at Dieppe." Ex-Editor Ralph McAllister Ingersoll (PM), inducted in July, shortly promoted to staff sergeant, was promoted to 1st lieutenant. Gaunt, haggard Thriller-Diller Samuel Dashiell Hammett (The. Thin Man), a sergeant in World War I, enlisted as a private, went off to Camp Upton.